The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-06
THE INDIANA BUDGET.
Damages Awarded Merrill Randall, in Bone
County, fer Whipping Outrage.
jackson County In Good Coz dition-wed-
ding at SeymOur-Sudden Death
The Crops-Other Specials.

LEBANON, July 1.-The celebrated
whipping case of Merrill Kendall
against George w. SilVers and Others
was tried IN the Clinton Circuit
Court this week, aud last night the Jury
brought in verdict for plaintiff
of s., 900 damages against Thomas Hulsizer,
Littleton Walker, William Morgan, Will
lam Caldwell and George Stephenson, five
of the sixteen defendants, they being the
only ones whom the plaintiff recognized.
The case has been tried twice, and the
costs will aggregate another thousand at
least. The action was brought by Kendall
for $40, OOO damages, and the complaint
alleged that plaintiff was taken from the
house of George w. Silvers, in Clinton
Township, by a mob (the defendants) on
the night of June 7, 1886, and terribly
hoeged. The case has attracted a great
deal of attention during the past year.
The Miami County superintendent Case.
PERU, July lin accordance with the
law, the fourteen Trustees met the first
Monday in June in this county to elect
County Superintendent. The politics of
these officials were seven Democrats and
seven Republicans. with Republican Au-
ditOr. The body on assembling failed to
agTee on organization, and there being
tie on chairman the Auditor proceeded to
vote for such Chairman, whereupon the
EtNtH dltcI
protest, withdrew into an adjoining room.
The remaining seven proceeded to nomi-
nate and unanimously voted, the Auditor
also voting, for Mr.. WOodring
for Superintendent. The Auditor,
in making up the record of the
meeting, showed the above facts, except
that he stated that the seven Democratic
trustees were present when the voting took
place. The present incumbent of the Su-
perintendet's office, A. j. DiDboye, Dem
ccrat, insisted there had been no election,
and by his attorneys, Hon. j. T.. Cox and
Hon. Charles 4. Cole, commenced quo
warranto proceedings in the Circuit Court,
Judge J. d. Conner. of Wabash, Ind, be-
Ing on the bench. The matter was argued
before him on demurrelsto Woodring's
answer. After hearing elaborate arguments
for the relator and defendant last Tues
day, the court took the questions under adj
visement until the assembling OF
court this morning. Judge Conner rem
dered his decision, holding that as the
record of the Auditor showed that
the full number of trustees were present,
and that by common law majority of
such body constituted quorum, thus in
this case eight were quorum, and that by
common law a majority of such quorum
could elect, N this case there being seven
votes cast for Woodring. two more than
the required majority, Mr.. Woodring was
legally elected to the Office of County
Superintendent. Attorneys for plaintiff
claim that the most important legal ques-
tons argued before the court were not con-
sidered by the court. 1t would seem that
il it be shown to be fact that the seven
trustees did withdraw there was no election,
as slightly intimsted by the court. The
plaintiff will probably appeal to the Su-
preme Court.
The Preacher and the Hired Girl Elope.
LAPoRTE, July la well-authenticated
report reached here to day that Rev. Will
lam West, pastor of the Methodist
church at Chesterton, a small town west OF
here, had clipped with his hired girl, de-
sorting a wife and six children. 1t is also
further stated that the financial affairs of
the church are in deplorable state. Not
a scrap of paper has been left to show how
matters stand. Numerous church debts are
left unpaid, and money collected for
church purposes is missing. 1t is thought
that the incorporation of church funds
will reach about $500. Beside this, West is
deeply in debt to the merchants of Chester
ton, but how much is not known at pres
ent. 1t is believed that the guilty pair
have gone to Detroit.